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Marcel Proust’s classic masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, continues in The Guermantes Way, the third volume. Summary of the Book In this volume, Proust’s narrator describes his experiences in the Guermantes residence. He offers a vision of Paris and the life in the late nineteenth century, describing a world of literary and aristocratic salons. Proust’s view of the Parisian way is both a tribute and a satire of the life during that age. He describes the lives of the aristocrats and that of the political situation at the time. This book carries on the masterful legacy that Proust set out to accomplish with this classic work of modern literature. About Marcel Proust Marcel Proust was a French writer and essayist. He is also known for Pleasures and Days and Against Sainte-Beuve. Series Reading Order This book is the third of the seven installments of Proust’s masterpiece. The next volume in the story is Sodom and Gomorrah.